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DISPATCH Oshawa, Brooklyn, Calgary Par Nair's exhibit, photographing for Rad Brown Dads, audio editing for The Sprawl's sprawlcast

This week's newsletter is a dispatch about work in Oshawa, Brooklyn, and Calgary.

Link: solastalgic.substack.com/p/dispatch-o...

wow, what do I even mean by that 'our'

Embedded journalism based out of our Costco locations

I didn't expect this to pop off. I think there is a lot more discussion about what mistreatment by men towards women looks like, and how many women would rather be single than deal with men who won't put in effort, be nice, or demonstrate basic respect and interest.

Okay, not the point of your post but: Wow, I'm excited for Max's crossover moment. This is gonna be a big win for the <<inserts antonym for DOOMSCROLL>> movement! HUGE.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

‘This is not restoration’: Māori leader challenges Ruakākā solar project Dr Mere Kepa says the $227m project stands on ancestral Te Parawhau land.

Meridian's newest solar farm is being built on stolen Māori land www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

it's really weird to have developed super specialized knowledge of the art industry and art crime for three years and then just suddenly stop developing it or reporting on it due to a layoff; but this happens to so many reporters and then I see discussions about declining public trust in the media

DISPATCH NYC: Mamdani's Election Party Okay, first things first, how did I end up here?

Dispatch from NYC: Mamdani's Election Party in Queens

Some words and mostly photos.

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Salaam Dunya / Hello World To begin (newslettering) again, in earnest.

reStarting a journalism newsletter called Solastalgia. The word means environmental grief/anxiety.

solastalgic.substack.com/p/salaam-dun...

It is powered by dread and more. Selfie for the algorithm.

New York unveils portal for public to share ICE footage after four US citizens arrested Attorney general Letitia James urges residents to share video and photos amid outcry over Chinatown raid

At least Tish James is fearless, giving New Yorkers a way to push back on ICE. Which has totally lost the plot going after fake bag vendors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This Day in Labor History: October 19, 1980. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) forced the textile company J.P. Stevens to sign a contract for the first time in North Carolina and Alabama. Let's talk this epic campaign, made famous by the film Norma Rae!

June feels like years ago, not four months

Six Ward 3 election candidates sitting at tables for a debate

Wiped out! The Sprawl put on two #yyccc candidate forums today on opposite ends of the city. Ward 3 with 6/8 candidates and Ward 12 with 5/5 candidates. Tomorrow is Ward 2 with 4/5 candidates. And Friday is Ward 13 with 1/2 candidates. Watch on The Sprawl's YouTube channel! 📸 @asadch.bsky.social

🎥 Video | The funeral of journalist Saleh Al-Jaafrawi, laid to rest after being killed last night in Gaza City.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

VIDEO: Hundreds of Palestinian Captives Released in Khan Younis From Israeli Detention “My message to the people of Gaza: Do not lose hope, do not despair,” a freed Palestinian prisoner said.

⚡️New video report from Drop Site News: Hundreds of Palestinian Captives Released in Khan Younis From Israeli Detention

By Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Kouddous, with contributions from Jawa Ahmad

www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

🐖 #knitting 🧶

Canadians Journalists for Justice in Palestine Hold a News – September 29, 2025 Representatives from Canadians Journalists for Justice in Palestine hold a news conference in Ottawa to discuss the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Speaking with reporters are Asad Chisti, Brishti Basu, Sam...

Thanks to @cpac.ca, here's where you can watch our press conference, where we address PM Carney, Minister Anand, and legacy newsroom leaders across Canada.

Feat. @smohyeddin.bsky.social, @abihayward4.bsky.social, @asadch.bsky.social, @brishti.bsky.social

www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

A poster with the logo “CJJP” on the top right, and text that says “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed.”

Around 250 media outlets from 50 countries, plus journalists and press freedom orgs, are uniting today to demand that Israel abides by international laws to protect journalists as civilians, and that Israel allows foreign journalists into Gaza.

#protectjournalistsingaza #letreportersintogaza

Vintage black & white photo of a man in a suit holding a chart and a pointer. The chart shows the "SIZE OF THE DONUT HOLE DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS" with illustrations of donuts from 1927, 1937, and 1948

Important scientific advancements have slowed considerably since 1948.

working on a windows 95 themed automation game about making powerpoint decks #gamedev

with all their gravity they have the secret of lightness, and that what many consider to be the vitality of the times - noisy, aggressive, revving and roaring - belongs to the realm of death, like a cemetery for rusty old cars."

- Italo Calvino, 1985
Six Memos for the Next Millennium

"Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose that one: the sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who raises themself above the weight of the world, showing that ... (cot'd)

Thank you @asadch.bsky.social ‪ @agotoronto.bsky.social @toure.bsky.social for giving stage and space for these stories.

- LBJ #HearThis